Alexandra Andrews: ...that you need to do a lot of grunt work to get to the good stuff

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🗓️ 4 April 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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We’re excited to talk with our guest on this episode, novelist Alexandra Andrews, who has written the critically acclaimed new novel, 'Who is Maud Dixon?'. The Wall Street Journal Magazine calls her, “The Breakout Novelist to Know This Year”. The New York Times says the book is “one of the most anticipated books this year”. And Vogue magazine calls it “one of the best books to read in 2021”. We're sure you'll agree with them! In this conversation, we talk to Alexandra about her path to becoming a major writer and how her own journey to find herself in her twenties inspired the book.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens. And I'm Jan Black. We are so excited to talk with our guest on this episode.
0:19.6	Novelist Alexandra Andrews.
0:21.8	The Wall Street Journal Magazine calls her the breakout novelist to know this year.
0:26.5	The New York Times says Allie's new book, Who Is Maude Dixon, is one of the most anticipated books this year.
0:33.0	And Vogue Magazine calls it one of the best books to read in 2021.
0:38.1	Allie, thank you so very much for joining us.
0:40.5	Thank you for having me.
0:42.3	Who is Maude Dixon is your first novel?
0:45.2	What does all of this praise for your book feel like?
0:49.2	It feels pretty wonderful to be honest.
0:52.4	You know, I came to fiction writing pretty late and at every step,
0:57.2	I didn't think it was going to happen. I didn't think I was going to finish one draft. I didn't
1:01.5	think I was going to get an agent. I didn't think it was going to get published. So this has been
1:05.3	surreal and wonderful. We've talked to so many successful authors on the show who went through
1:10.4	ups and downs over the course of writing their books, just like you explained.
1:14.5	Did you struggle with believing in yourself and your ideas along the way and feel like, man, I'm the only one who's ever going to read this book?
1:23.2	And if you did, how did you overcome those?
1:26.2	Yeah, that's a good question.
1:27.4	I really did. I found the idea of
1:29.8	writing a novel very intimidating. And it was hard at times to keep up the momentum. One thing I did was I
1:36.4	just refused to obsessively reread what I had already written. So I made a rule for myself that I would
1:43.1	just not even scroll back in the word document, just keep going forward. So I made a rule for myself that I would just not even scroll back in the
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